NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX- SoM Overview

This section provides an overview of the Orin NX SoM components and their capabilities.

The NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX is a powerful SoM that provides on-edge AI capabilities featuring an NVIDIA Orin SoC version designed for low-power consumption (down to 10W).

Table 1 shows a summary of the hardware characteristics of the SoM:

Table 1: NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX SoM - Hardware Summary
Feature	Jetson Orin NX 8GB	Jetson Orin NX 16GB
AI Performance	70 Sparse TOPS (INT8) and 35 Dense TOPS (INT8)	100 Sparse TOPS (INT8) and 50 Dense TOPS (INT8)
GPU	NVIDIA Ampere architecture with 1024 NVIDIA® CUDA® cores and 32 Tensor Cores
Max GPU Freq	765 MHz	918 MHz
CPU	6-core Arm® Cortex®-A78AE v8.2 64-bit	8-core Arm® Cortex®-A78AE v8.2 64-bit
CPU Max Freq	2 GHz
Memory	8GB 128-bit LPDDR5 102 GB/s	16GB 128-bit LPDDR5 102 GB/s
Storage	No internal storage included, supports NVMe external via PCIe x2 or x4
Deep Learning Accelerator	1x NVDLA v2.0	2x NVDLA v2.0
DLA Max Frequency	610 MHz	614 MHz
Vision Accelerator	PVA v2.0 @ 700MHz
Encoder	Support for H.264, H.265, VP9 and AV1. For H.265 supports: 1x 8K30 2x 4K60 4x 4K30 9x1080p60 18x1080p30
Decoder	Support for H.264, H.265 and AV1. For H.265 supports: 1x 4K60 3x 4K30 6x1080p60 12x1080p30
CSI Camera	Up to 8 virtual channels 8 lanes MIPI CSI-2 D-PHY 2.1 (up to 20Gbps)

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